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@tutti IF; HARBAUGH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

' Leners ramt No. 83,281, dated october 2o, 1868.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, F. R. HARBAUGH, ofPhiladelv phia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Egg- Holder; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescrlption of the' same.

My invention consists ofan egg-holder composed of a base, two elasticarms, and two sections of a cup, or their equivalents, the wholebeingconstructed and arranged substantially as described hereafter, andforming an appropriate instrument for grasping and holding hotboiledeggs, in place of the ordinary egg-cups.

In .order to enable others to make and use my invention, I will nowproceed to describe its construction and operation, reference being hadto the accompany# ing drawing, which forms a part of this specification,and in which- Figures l and 2 are perspective views of my improvedegg-holder, showing the parts inA different positions; 4

Figure 3, a modification; and Figure 4, another modiiication. Arepresents the base of the holder, from whie project the two arms, B andB', the lower portion of these armsconsisting of a spring, b, which isriveted or otherwise secured to the base, A. The upper ends,

c, of the arms are bent, as shown in the drawing, the bent end of onearm"l being adiacent to that ofAthe other, and the two being coupledtogether by a ring, d, in such a mannerV that they are free to move independently of each other.

To the bent end of each arm is secured the section or halfD of a cup,the spring b having a tendency to maintain the two sections in contactwith each other, as shown by fig. l.

When it is desired to introduce an. egg intothe holder, the two arms Band B are compressedtowards each other, thereby separating the sectionsof the cup, as shownby fig. 2. The egg is then held in such a positionbetween the sections, that on releasing the arms, it will, owing totheir elasticity, be grasped by and between the said sections.

Or the handling of the hot boiled egg, with the view of introducing itinto the holder, may be entirely dispensed with, and the instrumentinverted, and used for grasping, in a manner which will be readilyunderstood, any one of a number of eggs contained in a dish.

It is not essential that the arms B and B should be partly rigid andpartly elastic, as it will "be readily seen that they may be made of acontinuous spring, as seenlin iig'. 3.

Another modification of my invention is illustrated in g. 4, where twosemi-annular strips, a: x, are substituted for the above-mentioned cups.

I claim .as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Thewithin-described egg-holder, composed of a base, A, two elastic arms, Band B', and two sections, D D, of a cup, or the equivalent to the same,the whole being constructedv and arranged' substantially as' and for thepurpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

F. R. H ABBAUGH. Witnesses:

H. HowsoN, HARRY SMITH.

